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Reform of NCKU Cen= ter for General Education

General Education (GE) at = NCKU has been progressively reformed in recent years. The purpose of this reform= is to coordinate with the campus-wide teaching goals established by NCKU (i.e., NCKU stands on the tradition of Taiwan capital, pursuing to achieve the goa= l of being an international omni-directional university. Our intentions are to nurture students becoming cultivated and professional citizens as well as t= o obtain creativity and global vision. Furthermore, we expect to develop interdiscip= linary features in academia, so as to make contributions to the society and human beings.) Hence, the revised purpose for GE is “The knowledge gained f= rom GE courses is intended to develop a good understanding of social responsibi= lity and citizenship, and strengthen a student’s ability to participate actively and fully in society.” This confirms NCKU GE’s three missions:

- For general knowledge

- For core competence

- For knowledge comprehension

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Based on above three missi= ons, three tracks of NCKU GE courses are planned:

1)&n= bsp; Core GE courses

2)&n= bsp; Interdisciplinary GE courses

3)&n= bsp; Comprehensive GE courses

The following figure and t= he pargraphs presented afterward detailed the content of three tracks of GE courses.

= 1) Core = GE Courses

This track is for delivering general knowledge and cultivating each individual student to understand the meaning of implementing whole person education or liberal education. NCKU reforms the traditional course design in offering c= ore GE course. Instead of following the commonly known course plan in tis track (i.e., Chinese, English, History and Constitution), NCKU offers the followi= ng courses across 7 domains. They are listed below (16 credits in total):

- Citizenship and Civility

- International Lanaguge

- Human Civilization

- Basic Chinese

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- Asthetic and Art

- Philosophy and Belief

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In this track, the intent of designing interdisciplinary courses is to develop= the student’s basic thinking skills for facing new challenges and obtainig ability to acquire new knowledge. The student is expected to further develop his/her skills in judgement, induction, deduction and creativity in taking those courses.

The desig of the interdisciplinary courses is to offer not only the basic GE courses offered by Center for GE, but also the foundation of professional courses offered by all NCKU deparments. This helps increase the weight of professionalism in each course (as the figure below). In addition, the stud= ent is able to understand the importance of learning basic knowledge in other academic domains to integrate with his/her own expertise for a deeper level= of knowledge learning. There are 10-14 credits in this track. <= o:p>

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The interdisciplinary courses are categorized into four academic domains: Natur= al sience, Life science, Literacy-History-Philosphy-Art and Social sience. The student must take some of those courses outside of his/her field, so as to develop develop skills in judgement, induction, deduction and creativity. T= his special design is to integrate professionalism and GE courses together as providing a diverse and adaptive course map for the student. Based on GE co= urse design, our vision is to have students from different fields or departments decide the best combinations of the courses for themselves. They have to ob= tain 14 interdiscipalinary course credits either from Center for GE or from other departments’ selective courses. This allows the students to obtain mo= re opporutnites to consider whether to obtain double major degrees. This desig= n is also called “Flexibile teaching and learning environment for any department”. In the future, as more and more departments decide to decrease the teaching load, GE enables to achieve the integration of professionalism and GE courses. In order to realize this vision, the studen= ts from different departments are able to make their own choice in taking interdisciplinary courses for increasing their own education opportunities = of taking a double major or a minor in this teaching and learning environment.=

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= 3) Comprehensive GE Courses:

For knowledge comprehension, this track is to help the student comprehend what = they learn and then practice in their daily life. The student has to take 2-6 credits. The courses include forums and GE life practices. With the expecta= tion of giving the student a chance to integrate interdisciplinary courses, this track should help develop the student’s skills in judge, induction, reduction and creatity. The student is also expected to practice these skil= ls in their living experiences. For example, the student taking “GE life practice” course can realize that learning is not limited to one classroom but can be extended to life-long learning. Learning can be diverse and beyond time and space. NCKU GE committee has approved the regulations of “NCKU GE Life Practice Recognition”.

&= nbsp; Overall, NCKU hopes to implement whole person education and then have each undergrad= uate student being a good citizen with healthy mind and body under the design of three GE course tracks (core, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive). We also believe that the happiness of our society will be increased.